Publication · 1543 CE
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
History of Astronomy
About the work
Copernicus's masterwork, 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres', setting out the heliocentric system in full. Published in the year of his death, it began the displacement of the Earth from the centre of the cosmos.
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Knowledge connections
- Published byNicolaus Copernicus
- Part ofRenaissance Astronomy
- IntroducedThe Heliocentric Model
Sources & references
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- BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica
General reference for the history of astronomy, biographies, and cultural context.
- IAUInternational Astronomical Union
Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.